Naomi Allen
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Professor in Epidemiology
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Naomi Allen is a Professor in Epidemiology, based in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit. She joined UK Biobank as Senior Epidemiologist in 2011, and became Chief Scientist in 2019, where she is responsible for following-up participants both through linkage with routine health-related datasets, and through web-based questionnaires. She is also involved in developing the scientific strategy for future enhancements for the study. Her research interest is largely in the role of diet, obesity and circulating biomarkers in cancer development. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group, which aims to conduct individual pooled analyses of the relationship between circulating biomarkers and prostate cancer risk from cohort studies from around the world.
Recent publications
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Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank COVID-19 Serology Study.
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Bešević J. et al, (2023), Journal of epidemiology and community health
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Central Adiposity Increases Risk of Kidney Stone Disease via Effects on Serum Calcium Concentrations.
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Lovegrove CE. et al, (2023), Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
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Sex-Specific Body Mass Index to Optimize Low Correlation With Height and High Correlation With Fatness: A UK Biobank Study.
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Feng Q. et al, (2023), American journal of epidemiology
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A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images.
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Zhou Y. et al, (2023), Nature
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Association between metabolic syndrome and risk of incident dementia in UK Biobank.
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Qureshi D. et al, (2023), Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association